Jesse James: 'I can't worry' about Sandra Bullock anymore

"I can't worry about her anymore," he said on Good Morning America today in a taped interview to promote his new American Outlaw book.

"I think I've spent a good chunk of the last five or six years worrying only about her and what she thinks and what I should do and, like, you know, controlling all my movements and everything else. I think it's time to worry about Jesse and making sure Jesse's happy."

He hasn't seen Louis, the son he was in the middle of adopting with Bullock, even though he has moved to Austin and is now co-owner of the Austin Speed Shop.

James doesn't trash Bullock. He's interested in moving on -- including marrying tattoo artist Kat Von D this summer. And he says he's stronger for everything he's been through.

"If I can stand up and take all of it -- and I did -- I didn't hide from any of it -- I took it all on the chin, and guess what? I'm still standing."

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